Comments on: That Zen Guy Has Some Good Ideas

By: Zakirah

Zakirah — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:21:38 +0000

Thats a great tip. I have one more that might be useful for some people:

This is why I LOVE Gmail. The “Filter” feature is awesome.

If there are newsletter subscriptions that would take up more than 2 steps to unsubscribe, I’d make a filter in Gmail and tells it to just delete the email in the future.

This applies to some of the freebie Yahoo Groups that I joined but decided to leave (they clogged up my inbox big time), and its a lot of groups (was a freebie hoarder), so now I don’t get any emails from them anymore after filtering them.

Newsletters like J.Jill, PBteen, Martha, etc – I read the subjects and if I find them interesting, I archive them.

By: latz

latz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:26:40 +0000

This is some great advice. I need to let go of the compulsion to read it all!

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:55:19 +0000

OMG, I just needed to read this today!
Thanks sooooo much!
If I’m at home working at my PC, I check my email like 50 times a day… And I get frustrated if nothing new is there… I’m going slightly mad! LOL
Thanks again!
HUGS!

By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:31:14 +0000

Well, I have *two* inboxes…personal and work. The work inbox currently stands at just shy of 3000 emails. That doesn’t include what’s in the sent box. My personal inbox has roughly the same #. It’s down right scary at times! So yes, I need to do something!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:42:16 +0000

I need this or something…my inbox is nearing 10K with over 7500 unread…HELP!!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:04:57 +0000

Excellent advice……I don’t get a ton of emails, but there are certainly plenty that I don’t need to read or act on. I’ve also unsubscribed from a lot of sites which has helped to cut down the volume.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:43:27 +0000

My inbox is nearly always at zero – its a bit of a compulsion for me. They only items I let linger are those I will need to take action on within the next day, but for which that action takes more than a couple of minutes. David Allen (GTD) has the 2 minute rule – which I find really helps. Go ahead and do anything that you can complete within 2 minutes.

I also don’t file any of my emails anymore. They simply get archived – through “Archive” in Gmail or my one Outlook folder at worked called “Archive”. Search and Sort make it super-easy to find anything I might need.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:51:07 +0000

Now I just need something that will help me read my blogs…or summarize them so I know which ones to follow up on:-) I have blogger, but you know I’m a sucker once I see the summaries!